The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-05
"No GERMANS NEED APPLY"
The Causes Leading to the Raising of Thi
Cry Among English Workingmen.

The Causes Leading the Raising of This
Cry Among English workinsmen.
LONDON, Sept. 4-One OF the most striking
examples of prejudice against particular
nationality that has been presented in this coun-
try for many years is the present antlpathy to
Germans cherished by the London laborers,
artisans and tradesmen, and the feeling is
idly spreading to the provincial cities and
towns. Within the last few years the immi-
grafton of Germans to England has been steady
and gradually increasing, and to this crcum-
stance the Engishmen with whom these new
comers have come into competition ascribe a
large part of the prevalent distress among
skilled workmen and the decreased receipts of
the English retail dealers The very low
standard of wages paid and the small margin
of profit realized by small tradesmen in Ger
many cause English wages and prices to ap-
pear enormous by comparison. and the
Ieutons focking hither have, after
veyng the field, settled down to a fair
prices. thus considerably undertaking and
derseling Londoners their own ground. and
consequently securing and retaining the best
situations. and obtaining the greatest part of
Nor is this practice of accepting employment
at reduced wages confined to the male sex.
Thousands of German women and girls have
settled upon England as the place
where every thing turns into money. and in the
headway they have made in securing
employment 70 the detriment of their English
sisters they tar surpass the men.
In almost every household finds
German female help, where few years ago
only English servants we're employed, and an
advertisements for a cook or chambermaid is cer-
tain to result in the advertisers being besieged
by German women to secure the place. so
great has this nuisance become that the warn
ing, mo Germans need apply" is becoming
more frequently appended than omitted from
advertisements of this class The outcrv against
Germans Is taken up in the N usic-halls, and the
burden of one-half of the songs that have be-
como popular have their origin the
stage OF variety entertainments. Indeed.
most of the singers in these resorts
often more, upon the strength of the anti
German sentiment injected into their songs,
than upon the excsllency of the airs, the
purity of their voices. The English working
presence of German rival than from his own
personal habits. The German is industrious
and thrifty. He doesn't spend his money for
spirits squander it in pursuit of pleasures
that allure the Londoner Of his social grade. He
is always in funds. and the English artisan
week. and haunts the public houses the
rest of tho time, while the German
loses day, cannot understand it. The latter's
plant is that the '.boody German is getting all
of the work and all of the money. while he who
should have the preference is thrust aside to
take what may be left The reason of the
Germans success is that he is content TO work
steadily at moderate wages while the En- gllsh-
man wants high wages for what work he does
and the privilege of working when he chooses.
Mshraans view of the situation, and he continues
to hate the German, who takes the bread from
his mouth, as thoroughly as though the grounds
for his hatred were unassailable.